iPod Fic Meme!1. Put your mp3 player on shuffle and take the first 25 songs it gives you.2. Link to the lyrics. 3. Let people choose a song and assign character(s) to write a drabble to. 4. Any titles not striked through are open for choice.5. People may assign up to 5 fics.6. Chosen fandoms:TGWTG, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Watchmen, Teen Titans. If you want a fandom you know I know about but haven't listed, suggest it anyway, I might do it. :)7. After all songs are used, repeat step one.

Choose one or two or however many and a character/pairing and I'll try and write something for it. As always, you can ask for verses and see what I can come up with.

1) we would all be fools to pray for justice2) great charity, bad tactics3) a place beyond fear4) prayer is a dangerous business5) trying to build a tower out of custard6) I will not fail death7) all things out of season8) lit like a burning city9) now explain why you glow in the dark10) expect to be valued accordingly11) such a natural, normal lethality12) choose good actions without good knowledge13) the confusion of mind you dub honor14) you were born to be betrayed15) how long have I been walking down this road?16) any man can be kind when he is comfortable17) I've seen him cheat himself18) these prizes are for living men19) in desperation, anything becomes possible20) I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was21) ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be22) with the right to rule came the duty to protect23) they will be vastly unlucky in their children24) but he quit just an hour too soon25) matter remembered itself so very clearly26) the structure of her nose alone27) all the words in all the languages of the world that ever were or will be28) like trying to weave a box of shadows in which to carry water29) time and scale, both altered out of reckoning30) even your darkness shall be treasured then

Every person who wants to gets to request a drabble from me. In return, you [don't absolutely] have to post this in you journal and write a drabble for me.

Post all fandoms you're willing to write for. Your friends can pick a relationship, a story arc, a missing scene, or pretty much anything they want, unless the author has previously mentioned that they will not write it. They comment with what they want, and you write drabbles and post it in your LiveJournal.

Bold any reasons that apply to you, strike out any that don't (if you feel like it), and add three (or more, or less) reasons of your own to the bottom.

REASONS I WRITE FANFIC

1. To explore themes that I don't get to see in mass media using characters I love.2. Because it's fun.3. Because mass media does a crappy job of representing my race and/or sexual orientation and/or gender.4. Because I can get more people aboard my ship writing a story than a manifesto.5. Because TV science-fiction doesn't explore its science-fiction premises in enough depth.6. Because it's a gift I can give a stranger and know they will enjoy it.7. Because I resonate emotionally with the characters that I read and watch, and want to find out why by writing about it.8. Because every tale is a universe, often with fascinating nooks and crannies that the original author never explored.9. Because I've made some of my best and dearest friends through this very wacky hobby.10. Because the world the creator made is vast, and I want to see more of it.11. Because writing as a communal experience is amazing.12. Because I can.13. Because every time I write something, I learn more about writing. And myself. And my readers.14. Because someone can find it and know that there are other people out there who respond to media that way.15. Because writing porn and having someone say, "this is hot!" is an empowering experience.

And mine:

16. Because I get an idea in my head for a certain world and it won't leave me alone until it is written.17. Because I can write an introspective story looking at why the characters do what they do, and why they are who they are.18. Because the characters I find interesting belong to someone else.

Okay, the meme is the Timestamp Meme, only I'm not going to do ficlets--just answers for what's going on at any time in the timeline before or after any fic. Actually, I might as well call it the "Fic Open Season" meme: any question about any fic I've written is game.

We can all feel a little sucky about our writing ability sometimes. So this is the meme to try and deal with that. Comment here and I'll give you detailed love for as many of your fics as I can. Afterwards, post this in your own LJ and spread the love.

Give me a fandom, a pairing and a prompt (and a kink if you want one), and in return, I will write you either:A drabble of exactly 100 words; orA ficlet of exactly 500 words; orA fic of exactly 1000 words

Give me the title of a story I've never written (in a fandom that you know I can write in), and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.